On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 08:03:27 GMT, Epistle wrote:

What is the reason for this task?

It may have the effect of deleting a whole lot of email addresses from a
spammer.

"foxidrive" <foxidrive@Shotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1ginzuei6llxv$.1gxxuc6q2bqj8$.dlg@40tude.net. ..

"foxidrive" <foxidrive@Shotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1ginzuei6llxv$.1gxxuc6q2bqj8$.dlg@40tude.net. ..
1534400
1535169
To unsubscribe EVERYONE from this spammer.
http://leadsforyou.cjb.net/

It's a very clever idea, if it actually works. You'll find that it takes a
while to get each reply, so it will be a long slow process. In the end,
you'll wonder if it really makes any difference.


:: KILLSPAM.BAT
@echo off
if GOTO:==%1 %1%2 (Subroutine Handler)
call %0 GOTO: UNSUB 153440 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
call %0 GOTO: UNSUB 153441 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
call %0 GOTO: UNSUB 153442 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
....
set prefix=
goto end

:UNSUB
set prefix=%3
:loop
start
http://welcome1.leadsforyou.biz/?act...subscriber_id=
%prefix%%4
:: Remove the :: below if a delay is needed.
::choice /c1 /t1,2>nul
shift
if not .==%4. goto loop
:end


--
Todd Vargo (body of message must contain my name to reply by email)

Not quite there yet

In the batch file, the & below get split and create a space, so the bat file
attempts to treat user_id=4 and subscriber_id= as separate commands


http://welcome1.leadsforyou.biz/?act...subscriber_id=

So need some way of keepint the URL on one piece?

DD

Maybe double quote marks around the entire URL.

"http://welcome1.leadsforyou.biz/?action=unsubscribe&user_id=4&subscriber_id=..."

Or replace the spaces with their escape sequence - %20

http://welcome1.leadsforyou.biz/?act...bscriber%20id=...

Tom Lavedas
===========

Epistle wrote:

Trouble is the spaces aren't there in the first place. Batch file when run
on echo on shows spaces instead of ampersand and so tries to treat as 3
separate commands. Will try what you say though
"Tom Lavedas" <lavedas@pressroom.com> wrote in message
news:w_2dnda4SJSgCr-iXTWJiw@fcc.net...
=..."

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 08:50:29 GMT, "Epistle" <mology@trait.com> wrote:

A couple of points.
1) you don't have the right to delete anyone but yourself unless you
are given permission by the person owning the ID

2) attempting to delete an address from an opt-out list may or may
not actually delete the address - it the opt-out address is actually
valid, and a lot of them aren't, the attempt validates the address as
belonging someone who actually reads spam, which gives the address
considerable monetary value: the attempt to reduce spam may actually
increase it because the address was sold to someone else as one that
had been verified as belonging to someone who actually reads spam.

I use PopFile with filters in my e-mail client and don't even have to
see 98.16% of the spam that comes my way (49% of all messages). It
hardly ever marks real mail as spam, but does let the occasional spam
message past.


T.E.D. (tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu - e-mail must contain "T.E.D." or my .sig in the body)

Everyone has the right to delete spammers email addresses whenever they
like, whoever the spammer is. That's a fact of life. If there was valid opt
methods what you say would not be a problem but most are not valid opt out -
they are fake. The method employed below seems to be means of
unsubscribing. So if you can upset the spammers email and mailing system,
the better it is.
"Ted Davis" <tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu> wrote in message
news:9c75ivon8p09mm43j4lod5r4groc4v22sv@4ax.com...
People don't own IDs in this case, they are given them by spammers

It will just say it is already unsubscribed


the attempt validates the address as
In the below case, the spammer wouldn't know who is deleting

the attempt to reduce spam may actually

"Epistle" <mology@trait.com> wrote in message
news:KTwUa.16306$OM3.261@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
This is most likely because you are using an NT/2K/XP system not
DOS/95/98/ME. Try escaping the ampersand with a caret "^&" on your system.
OTOH, quoting the url as Tom suggested below should work too.


Now here is a friendly name I've not seen around here for some time.

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Todd Vargo (body of message must contain my name to reply by email)

Ah yes, using XP!
"Todd Vargo" <toddvargo@nccw.net> wrote in message
news:bfujr7$ieb1s$1@ID-25025.news.uni-berlin.de...

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 15:58:11 GMT, "Epistle" <mology@trait.com> wrote:

That's not true - if you delete someone's address from a mailing list
without their permission, you have done something close to forging
their name. For all you know, the owner of the address may have
requested that it be put there (not likely, but one man's spam is
another's highly desirable advertisement).

You are assuming that the spammer is using some sort of web based
mailing list manager with the list owner commands open to the world.
That is so stupid that it *can't* be real unless it's the opt-out
mechanism, which is unlikely to have favorable results - is more
likely to be a method of verifying addresses for sale.

T.E.D. (tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu - e-mail must contain "T.E.D." or my .sig in the body)